UPDATE: American Indians and Appalachia (3/27; MLA '00)

From: Gardner, Susan (sgardner@email.uncc.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 16:22:17 EST


Update: deadline extended

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> At the ASAIL/DAIL business meetings at MLA '99, a special session on Am. > Indian writers and Appalachia was suggested, and I've agreed to coordinate > the proposal to MLA. Whether they remained, emigrated voluntarily, were > "removed" in the 1830s or relocated later, generations of American Indian > writers have recreated their original homelands. Anthologies of American > literature, however, have frequently created the impression that there are > no contemporary American Indian writers in the Appalachian region, nor are > the historical writings by Indian authors generally well known. Please > send proposals by March 27 to Susan Gardner at the contact details below, > or to GrSsn@aol.com. Many thanks! > > Dr. Susan Gardner, Assoc. Prof. of English, Am. Indian Literatures & Film > English Dept., Univ. of NC at Charlotte, 9201 Univ. City Blvd., Charlotte, > NC 28223-0001 > 704/547 4208; 704/547 3961 (FAX); sgardner@email.uncc.edu > > "Walk cheerfully over the earth, answering that of God in everyone" > (George Fox, 1656) >

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